BACKGROUND It is known that a predominant glomerular deposition of IgG4 is characteristic of idiopathic membranous nephropathy (MN) and that significant deposition of other IgG subclasses is also observed in lupus MN. However, there is no report focusing on the distribution of glomerular IgG subclass deposits in MN patients with anti-U1 ribonucleoprotein (RNP) antibody. METHODS We evaluated c...

Chronic exposure to manganese (Mn) may lead to a movement disorder due to preferential Mn accumulation in the globus pallidus and other basal ganglia nuclei. Iron (Fe) deficiency also results in increased brain Mn levels, as well as dysregulation of other trace metals. The relationship between Mn and Fe transport has been attributed to the fact that both metals can be transported via the same m...

Manganese (Mn) is an essential element, acting as cofactor in numerous enzymes. In particular, a Mn cluster is indispensable for the function of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II. Metal transporters of the Natural Resistance-Associated Macrophage Protein (NRAMP) family have the ability to transport both iron and Mn. AtNRAMP3 and AtNRAMP4 are required for iron mobilization in germina...

Nanostructured Mn y Ga ribbons with varying Mn concentrations including Mn 1.2 Ga, Mn 1.4 Ga, Mn 1.6 Ga, and Mn 1.9 Ga were prepared using arc-melting and melt-spinning followed by a heat treatment. Our experimental investigation of the nanostructured ribbons shows that the material with y ¼ 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6 prefers the tetragonal L1 0 structure and that with y ¼ 1.9 prefers the D0 22 structur...

Manganese (Mn) in surface waters is a micronutrient, but elevated concentrations are toxic to fish and impair drinking water quality. In Scotland, undesirable Mn concentrations (> 0.05 mg l(-1)) occur predominantly in upland freshwaters because the acidic pH and organic nature of catchment soils favour Mn mobilisation. The relationship between upland land-use in Scotland and Mn concentrations i...

In the title compound, {[Mn(6)(C(8)H(4)O(4))(6)(C(4)H(9)NO)(8)]·H(2)O}(n), two of the Mn atoms are six-coordinated by six O atoms from three benzene-1,4-dicarboxyl-ate (bdc) ligands and two trans DMA (dimethyl-acetamide) mol-ecules, whereas two other Mn atoms, located on inversion centers, are both in octa-hedral coordinations by six bdc O atoms. The discrete trinuclear manganese secondary buil...

The relative biological availability of Mn in reagent-grade (RG) Mn sources was tested using 41 Rambouillet crossbred wether lambs in a completely randomized design. Lambs were fed a basal corn-soybean meal-cottonseed hull diet (37.6 ppm Mn, DM basis) or this basal diet supplemented with 0, 1,500, 3,000 or 4,500 ppm Mn from RG MnSO4.H20 or 3,000 ppm Mn from RG MnO, MnO2 and MnCO3. Feed intake w...

In pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaves, manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) is mainly localized in mitochondria as well as in peroxisomes. In this work, the effect of leaf senescence on the peroxisomal and mitochondrial Mn-SOD was studied in detached leaves from pea plants which were incubated in the dark at 25 degrees C for 3-11 d. Northern blots hybridized with a cDNA encoding mitochondrial Mn-...